April 29, 2009

Is there a coloring book for people who are afraid of bad drawings? Because I need some help with that, please, government.

ADDED: That drawing makes a good what's-wrong-with-this-picture exercise for kids. Outside the window, in real life, the second plane is about to hit the WTC, and that was carried live on TV, but it should not also appear in the magazine the woman is holding.

IN THE COMMENTS: Chip Ahoy points us to the government coloring book he made:

The accelerating pace of modern life: Yesterday it took only nine minutes for "eurotard" to go from a word repeated by a blogger who'd voted for Obama to being the Shame of the Right. Today, a photo of a terrorist attack can appear on the inside pages of a tabloid as it's happening.

Aw, I can't be too harsh about this. Have y'all checked out the link? A 68-year-old grandmother among others put it together for her local volunteer crisis response team. I doubt the original authors made a dime over it. It looks like an amateur effort, sure, but that's because it is.

Does it strike anyone as odd that the woman is reading about the terrorist attack while watching it on television, but she could look out her window and see it in real time? What planet does she live on?

NKVD, look again. The plane in the tabloid is already at the second building. It's a bit further out on the TV, but the plane is even a little further out in the window. So the tabloid isn't just real time, it's ahead of time. I suspect Lewis Lapham wrote the tabloid.

Smilin' Jack said... "As always, government has the solution to your problem. Just check out anything supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. After that, FEMA's drawings will look like Rembrandt."

Well, Jack, you like some others on this blog are terribly afraid of what you don't understand which is a shame.

First you take a swipe at the NEA which supports (probably unlike you) Live from Lincoln Center, American Masters, Great Performances and a number of individual projects. I suggest you turn of Spike TV sometime and take a look.

Second, these aren't FEMA's drawings and you would know that if you read the links and opened your eyes instead of just finding a place to be a smart ass.

Third (yes there's more) read your last sentence.

"After that, FEMA's drawings will look like Rembrandt."

In your haste and error in the aforementioned FEMA reference, the object of the drawings was a template for a coloring book..they aren't finished drawings and to a 5 year old they are plausible but more than that, they "AREN'T REMBRANDT". I know you knew that but didn't you mean "...look like Rembrandt's"??? but the way you constructed the sentence..well you get the idea.

I know. Picky picky and I make errors too but when you take a rightwing swipe at the NEA, the gloves come off.

That drawing makes a good what's-wrong-with-this-picture exercise for kids. Outside the window, in real life, the second plane is about to hit the WTC, and that was carried live on TV, but it should not also appear in the magazine the woman is holding.Riiiiiight. Cuz God knows that magazines never print pictures that have been shown on television.

And for those who think this is ridiculous waste of money--do you think this was proposed and created in the last 100 days?! Nope. You undoubtedly have W. to blame for this foolishness.

HDHouse, how about an apology to Ann and the rest of us. One person mentioned Obama before you, and a second joked about the recent photo op. Otherwise, most statements were about how bad the drawing are or the general waste of taxpayer dollars. Nice wide brush you have there... try staying in the lines. This drawing may be to difficult for you.

Riiiiiight. Cuz God knows that magazines never print pictures that have been shown on television.It's generally hard for a magazine to be printed with pictures of an event before that event has happened.

Not impossible though. The picture in the magazine could be a mockup of a potential event, a prediction which then came true. Or possibly time travel is involved.

Geez, come on, Tibore. Look at the whole book. You can tell it is amateurish but serious. Nobody's going to put that kind of effort into a 25-page coloring book just to raise eyebrows with one page about 9/11.